Category: dance

Daria Klimentova: “I have worked with some incredible people, who I will always remember. I have given my ballet life to English National Ballet, with all the ups and downs.”

“The Royal Ballet’s artistic director, Kevin O’Hare, told the Observer that any comparison with the rivalries between the Montagues and the Capulets of Verona, or between Manchester United and Manchester City, were way off the mark. There is, he says, no ill blood between Covent Garden and the Coliseum.”

The “Men in Motion concept has attracted an impressive range of male dancers from major companies in Britain and elsewhere.”

“It reflects changing forms of camerawork and editing, wraps in history and documentary, and ranges in subject from tap, ice, flamenco and Asian idioms to ballet stars and modern-dance choreography, established and experimental.”

The great ginger gentleman of the Royal Ballet talks us through the damage dance has done to his body over the decades.

A statement signed by the board said “the organization remains solvent and critically successful. We hope that the company and school will continue to succeed in the hands of a new board and the artistic director.”

The estate of the late pharmaceuticals mogul and philanthropist “will give $3 million to Gibney Dance, the formerly all-women dance troupe that is known for its social activism and is about to expand its operations to 280 Broadway in Lower Manhattan.”

Vadim Muntagirov is the ENB’s lead principal, a 23-year-old Russian whose talents have earned him comparisons with a young Nureyev. The defection is a huge coup for the Royal Ballet, still smarting from the loss of its leading female principals Tamara Rojo and Alina Cojocaru to the ENB.

“More than 200 nominations of companies, choreographers and performers were received from the dance critics and the 40 short-listed for the awards came from a wide spectrum, both geographically and by genre, including the breakthrough of three nominees from flamenco.”

It’s called Flesh and Bone, it will center on an ambitious and disturbed young ballerina (wonder where they got that idea), and it features some serious ballet talent in front of and behind the camera. Leading the project is a longtime producer for Quentin Tarantino. (Make of that what you will.)